How is RIM legally allowed to use android apps in their upcoming Blackberry

DANIELM

Member
OS update? For anyone that is into the world of mobile computing, I am sure you have heard all of this dribble about the Blackberry playbook getting an update to include the android framework allowing users to run android apps. First of all, how the hell is this nonsense legal? Wouldn't something like this need to be "okayed" by Google??? Furthermore, why the hell would Google just let this happen even if they didn't have to give it an okay? If they don't at least try to fight it (sure it wouldn't be hard to take down) it would be gone. If they allow this to happen RIM will regain market share and even have the potential to one day over take android. The wolrd makes no sense sometimes...

The reason I am asking here is because google results are nothing but unrelated crap when I try to figure this out... go ahead, try it... I dare you... I'm sure it's possible to word it just right, but I just don't have the patience.
I love how you can't edit already submitted details... what a load of crap. Well... here is what I needed to fix.

If they don't at least try to fight it (sure it wouldn't be hard to take down) they allow RIM to regain market share and even have the potential to one day over take android.
 

jcurrieii

New member
Google may be one of the main funders of Android, but they do NOT own it.

For the amount of money that Google receives annually from Android, should Android vanish overnight, Google would be several months before noticing the loss.

Considering that RIM is the only real competitor with Apple in the critical business markets (none of the other companies have the market share), whom else is there to "deal" with?

Besides, as a previous poster stated, Android is a mobile version of Linux, and is Open Source. This means that APPLE could LEGALLY use Android apps should they choose to,
 
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